aspirational feudalism.

His entire aesthetic and ethics are modelled on Mobutu Sese Seko.

See also: Marco Rubio

Apologies for sounding antisemitic. Certainly not my intent. It mainly looks like when he hosted a sports team and served piles of congealed McDonalds hamburgers. Likely he sacked the kitchen staff as DEI hires. This is America! no color or flavor allowed!

I make latkes, they are delicious, and McDonald’s is gross.
Those warming trays would turn them into greasy soggy rubber.

Is that what those are? They look awful for latkes, and the company looks worse.

Serving a lot of unappealing brown lumps apparently. Do people really put up with that food and that company? For what?

Time to sanction the US, Trump, and the oligarchs running the country, as was done after Russia invaded Ukraine.

People who are stuck in ER waiting for hospital beds are more likely to die

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29570120/

And become sicker

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Overcrowding is killing people.

The care of unwell and disabled relies on the historic presence of free labour by women with limited job prospects. The care duties still fall on women who have to juggle them with their full time jobs since no family can afford unemployed adult homemakers anymore.

They prattle on about how we need better home supports and want to be at home, but home support is conveniently not covered by the Canada Health Act. In BC, 24 hour care at home costs $20k/month for low wage contract staff, $36k/month for unionized staff with benefits. Nobody saved enough for this.

Now the province has a much touted “hospital at home” program to try to make up for lack of beds. Ask how much it costs per patient as compared to in hospital care.

Canada has fewer hospital beds per population than other wealthy countries:
www.who.int/data/gho/dat...

Previous governments cut beds, doctors, and nurses in cost savings effort, unlike other countries who saw the baby boomer aging coming and planned more appropriately by increasing numbers.

That is not a new antibiotic it is a corporate patent shenanigan to make an established antibiotic more expensive.

The Overstory

maybe, despite it's best efforts, the US will start to meet its pollution and carbon reduction targets after all.

I mean, nice sentiment, but it did absolutely nothing but waste a bunch of time and money the last three impeachments.

pot <=> kettle

I guess we will see if neighbouring wealthy powerful Islamic and Arab nations continue to do a whole lot of nothing to end this war / genocide.